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CIPC #93: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett

Posted on November 6, 2018

Today, we travel all the way back to 1924. The roaring twenties! It’s the time of the Weimar republic, Jazz is becoming big, Joyce’s Ulysses…

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CIPC #92: Barque advertisement

Posted on October 30, 2018

Pretty much every time I talk about chess in advertisement, I point out that chess is used to symbolise intelligence and sophistication, but it has…

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CIPC #91: Basil, the great mouse detective

Posted on October 23, 2018October 24, 2018

When people talk about great Disney movies, they usually mention Fantasia, Toy story, The lion king – but no one ever mentions Basil, the great…

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CIPC #90: Zorro S2 E8, The flag of truce

Posted on October 16, 2018

What, oh what, did people do before the internet? Or, generally, before the rise of the computer? Hell, before cheap pocket editions of all the…

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CIPC #89: Vittel commercial

Posted on October 9, 2018October 7, 2018

Can I go on a little rant for a moment? Well, this is my blog, so I most definitely can! So here I go: modern…

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CIPC #88: A talent for murder

Posted on October 2, 2018

And once more we end up in our wheelhouse: crime fiction. This time, we’ll talk about a British made-for-tv movie from 1984. Angela Lansbury plays…

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CIPC #87: Sandra and Woo No.574, Intelligence in pets

Posted on September 25, 2018

One of the more popular webcomics at the moment – number twenty on this plausible-looking list – is Sandra and Woo, which tells off a…

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CIPC #86: Kunt U mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer? E40, De zoon van Zwankezwaan

Posted on September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

Whoever heard of a fantasy television series conceived as a sequel to a Grimm fairytale with a nine word title and 45 minutes episodes which…

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CIPC #85: Professor T. S2 E10, Het DNA van een moordenaar

Posted on September 11, 2018September 7, 2018

Here we go again. How many times have I spotlighted television series about detective?! The Mentalist, Midsomer Murders, Columbo – I have the impression that…

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CIPC #84: Chess in literature

Posted on September 4, 2018September 5, 2018

So far, I have only talked about books in the 15th instalment of the Chess in Popular Culture series, where I discussed a bunch of…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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